Can’t hear anything when Alfred speaks except Avatar Roku.

Except that fusion is aways “30 years away” so basically everyones hoping for a miracle solution, the silver bullet, to solve our current energy problems. Solar, while great in its own way, isn’t capable of powering a nation like the US entirely unless you have massive amounts of storage, which means batteries, which…

Except resources for new technologies are surprisingly sparse. I think the media loves writing about fusion because it’s such a future technology and it’s very fantastic seeing as it’s what the sun does, and who doesn’t want to have a mini-sun producing our power?? We know the LFTR works and we could commercialize it…

OR! We could take all those millions of dollars and invest in liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs)! Which we know works, way less waste, safer, likely cheaper and we don’t have to wait 30+ years before it’s ready. China is going all in on it and so should we. This fear of any and all fission based energy…